A Golden Weed

An "environmental" history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco. Challenging long-held perceptions, it examines not only the material relationships that connected crop, land and people but also the justifications that encouraged tobacco farming in the region.

About the author

Drew A. Swanson is assistant professor of history at Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio, where he teaches environmental history.

Summary

An exploration of the rise of the crop strain that came to dominate the American tobacco industry and its toll on the Southern landscape that produced it

Product details

• Authors: Drew A. Swanson, Swanson Drew A.
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2014
• EAN: 9780300191165
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19116-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series; Yale Agrarian Studies (Hardcov; Yale Agrarian Studies Series; Yale Agrarian Studies; Yale Agrarian Studies (YUP)
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, 20th Century, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Applied ecology, Tobacco industry, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Manufacturing industries, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture & Related Industries, Central Southern States, Southeastern & South Atlantic States, US South, US South: South Atlantic States, Agricultural and rural economics